Robin Bellas

Robin Bellas is one of Morgenthaler Ventures' Partner.Robin is based in Menlo Park， focuses on medical device and HCIT investments， and served as Morgenthaler’s Managing Partner from 2006-2009. He led the Firm’s transformation from a family partnership to a performance-based compensation and leadership meritocracy. Robin joined Morgenthaler in 1984 after ten years in the life science industry and has directed the exits of over 20 companies with a combined value of $10 billion.

Robin formed Morgenthaler’s Life Science team in 2001 and started medical device incubation with IVS and Ensure Medical， followed by The Foundry and ForSight Labs incubators. He invested in and served as a Director of Ardian， Cabochon Aesthetics， and Miramar， as well as Transcend， ForSight Vision2， Nexis Vision， ForSight Vision4 and ForSight Vision5.

Robin led Morgenthaler’s early financings in Ardian at The Foundry and served as a Director of the company. In January 2011， Medtronic completed the acquisition of Ardian for $800 million， plus uncapped annual revenue growth milestones through Medtronic’s fiscal 2015.